To hate my own cooking?

[julietmanchester]

I'm sick of eating my own food. I now want to do more take away, DH is against spending that much more on takeaway. But I just can't eat my own food anymore and DH doesn't know how.

Is this odd or normal during covid times?

@julietmanchester

Your DH can take over the cooking for the foreseeable future.

Why does it have to be you who does the cooking?

Bored of the same recipes, or sick of cooking?

It’s about time your DH learns to cook don’t you think?

Your DH doesn't know how? What do you mean - doesn't know how to cook?

I know what you mean, I felt this intensely in the middle of the first lockdown.

Can’t DH try out a few things to share the load, or at least cook with you? Anyone can follow a recipe.

Maybe trying a few new recipes or ideas might help?

You need a couple of good recipe books aimed at beginners. Unless your husband is dyslexic there is no reason why he can't follow a simple recipe.

Yeah I am not buying that your husband 'doesn't know how to cook.' that's just an excuse to not do it.

Don't fall for it @julietmanchester He knows how to cook as much as you do!

Bored of the same recipes? Try a food delivery box hat plans new recipes for you.

Sick of cooking? DH starts sharing the load. If you already have a balanced work load, you take one of his jobs and he takes cooking.

My 13 year-old DS can knock up a delicious dinner. I'm pretty sure your husband can manage.

Try Gousto. Cheaper than takeaway and instructions and ingredients included so someone else can cook it AND your OH learns a valuable lifeskill

I know exactly what you meam. I normally enjoy cooking but lockdown has sucked that totally out of me. the curry legend kit from the spicery was a God send. Easy tasty meals with minimum planning and store cupboard ingredients. Also your husband needs to step up. We would have starved if it had a been on me... Good luck!

and DH doesn't know how. 😂😂

Sounds like 'D'H had better get his big boy's pants on and learn.

Your DH needs to learn to cook but also it’s ok to sometimes have really simple things that don’t require much preparation.

Takeaways are a waste of money mostly - also unhealthy and often disappointing.

My DH has always said he doesn't know how but I generally love cooking and trying new recipes so it's never been a problem. More recently though with WFH and kids home more often than in school I have introduced just one day a weekend when the older two DC cook and the other day my DH tries something.
The teens relish it, the oh not so much but like you I had become tired of my own cooking so it'll carry on forever I hope!

Surely he needs to learn how to cook then? I am sick to the back teeth of it at the moment, Dh can cook but I am admittedly a bit of a control freak and do it better so end up doing it but I have quit doing breakfast and lunch for everyone since the first lockdown.

Your DH needs to sign up for gusto or similar.
It should be a perfect way for him to start to learn to cook.

I looked up our favorite take away recipes and have mastered a few!

But the others are right, he needs to learn.

Send him some recipes and a shopping list and tell him he’s cooking on Friday nights. What he chooses is down to him.

My df has learned to cook interesting dishes in his 70s. There really is no excuse.

DH means of 'cooking' is boiling pasta, rubbing a tub of butter on the pasta, with black pepper, as a complete meal. He really doesn't know how to cook anything! I really couldn't eat his 'pasta' dish.

I agree with all the posters that DH should learn to make something semi healthy or decent.

I firmly believe that if you can read (or follow a model video on YouTube) then you can cook. Make your husband cook.

Try Hello Fresh!

I love cooking and I'm good at it but I know exactly how you feel. My DH eats everything out in front of him but would probably choose plain food if given a choice so if I forced him it would be egg and chips, chips and beans, fish fingers and chips most nights (spot the theme!) which I would hate more than once a week.

There's a halfway house here though I think, you can invest in something like gousto, cook or even just decent M&S ready meals so it's not on you every night, those nights it's up to him to bung it in the oven and do the hanging around checking it's ready etc.

Agree your dh should learn to cook. How about James Mays recent cook book I thought it was quite good apart from all the spam. Another thing is to cook double portions of everything you do that is good to freeze and freeze half.

A friend forgot to cancel their hello fresh order when they went away and we picked it up and used it.
It had recipe cards with clear pictures and timing.
All the ingredients for each meal were portioned out and ready pretty for cooking.
It looked ideal for novice cooks.
I would sign up for a couple of meals a week that he likes the idea of and get him cooking.

If your DH "doesnt know how" to cook then he doesnt get to dictate that you have to do it all the time.

Give him an ultimatum. He shares the cooking or more takeaways it is

I am the same. I am hating the entire planning and shopping then to be met with unenthusiastic replies when i respond to "what's for tea?"

DH has a nice time-consuming dish that he makes that everybody loves but he does it about once a month. Only today I have had.the conversation that while its lovely to be able to cook once a month, it's a pain in the arse to do it 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year part of the reason I took so badly to the cancellation of our holidays this year I think hes taken it on board